At the second-floor entrance to the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences there is a one-sheet poster of Wings, the first-ever Oscar winner for Best Picture and ...

‘Wings’, Oscar’s First Best Picture Winner, Screens at Paramount Celebration. The 1927 silent war movie was accompanied by a live organ Tuesday night at the Academy.

Paramount's 1927 World War I epic "Wings" had the usual aerial duels . . . and then came the unusual. Director William Wellman wanted as much reality as possible: ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences said today that it will screen its first Best Picture Oscar winner, the 1927 silent film Wings, on January 18 next year as part of a celebration of ...

Wellman’s silent, black and white, 1927 Best Picture-winning WWI epic “Wings” has been fully restored in a partnership between Paramount Pictures (this year celebrating its 100th anniversary ...

The first Academy Awards were handed out in 1927, when the silent World War I epic “Wings” took home the prize for Outstanding Picture, the precursor to today’s Best Picture. Starring Clara ...

Wings helped launch several careers when it was released in 1927, including John Monk Saunders, who went on to write The Dawn Patrol, ... Publicity still for Wings Courtesy Paramount Pictures.

Courtesy of Paramount Pictures“Wings,” the silent film epic about World War I aviators, won the first Academy Award for Best Picture 90 years ago. The motion picture was the only silent movie ...

In honor of the 85th anniversary of “Wings” and the centennial of Paramount Pictures, the studio that produced the classic, the film starring Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow and a young ...

After having spent 85 years unrated, the first Oscar best picture winner "Wings" finally underwent the fierce scrutiny of the MPAA and came away with -- drumroll please -- a PG-13 rating for "war ...